In anticipation of the launch of the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, or VISTA, expected to become operational by the middle of the current year, astronomers from the European Organization for Astronomical Research have mapped the content of a dark filament of molecular cloud named Corona Australis, located in the Southern Crown constellation about 500 light years away from Earth, with the greatest detail yet.
The 45 light years long cloud of gas emits light in the near-i...
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